Jefferson Lab–NVIDIA Collaboration Uses Titan to Boost Subatomic Particle Research

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Jefferson Lab–NVIDIA Collaboration Uses Titan to Boost Subatomic Particle Research

Scientists are only beginning to understand the laws that govern the atomic world. Before the 1950s the electrons, neutrons, and protons comprising atoms were the smallest confirmed units of matter. With advancements in experimental and theoretical techniques in recent decades, though, researchers now try to understand even smaller particles at…

Eric GedenkDecember 7, 2016

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OLCF Staff Give Students Hands-On Training with UT Data Center Course

Managing, moving, and securely storing data are becoming ubiquitous parts of many industries. As more industries continue to modernize, the demand for experts in data center management will only continue to grow. To proactively address this issue, experts at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of…

Eric GedenkDecember 7, 2016

Technology

CAAR Team Members Test Compilers for Summit at IBM Hackathon

Former OLCF Postdoctoral Researcher and current NVIDIA Solutions Architect Tom Papatheodore (left) and OLCF Tools Developer Oscar Hernandez (right) attended an IBM hackathon for OpenMP 4.5 with Lixiang Luo (center), an IBM research staff member at the IBM/NVIDIA Center of Excellence at ORNL, to test compilers for Summit, the OLCF’s…

Rachel McDowellDecember 7, 2016

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ORNL Staffers Create a Buzz at Grace Hopper Conference

Women from all over the world united at the 22nd annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC), presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery. This year 14 women from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) attended the conference to…

Rachel McDowellDecember 7, 2016

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